Project overview

Seven escalators at Perth Underground and Elizabeth Quay stations are being replaced as part of a $14.6m escalator replacement program. Perth Underground will also have a new additional lift installed while Elizabeth Quay Station passengers will get a new replacement lift and two new additional escalators. In total, the works will include:

Perth Underground Station

Replace four escalators between the concourse and platform levels.

Realign stairs at the northern end of station.

Install new lift.

Elizabeth Quay Station

Reconfigure stairwell.

Install new lift.

Decommission and remove existing lift.

Install two additional escalators.

Replace two existing escalators (these two will be removed and replaced at the same time).

Replace existing escalator to Elizabeth Quay Bus Station.

To minimise disruption to passengers, the majority of work will take place at night and will be staged so that only one escalator is replaced at a time, keeping access via stairs, remaining escalators and/or lifts.

The full upgrade project is expected to be complete in 2019.

About the works

Replacing the escalators with purposely-designed heavy-duty transport escalators and installing new lifts will ensure a more reliable service for our passengers. Both new lifts will meet the PTA’s revised lift specification to ensure improved reliability and availability, while the additional lift at Perth Underground will also provide an alternative means of accessing the platform and concourse levels.

The new escalators are bi-directional, to accommodate changing pedestrian flow and are also ‘slow-start’ for better energy efficiency. This means that like the new escalators at Perth Station to the underpass, they slow down when nobody is on them and gently increase to normal operating speed when they detect people coming onto them. They also have an additional lead-in step to provide improved safety.

Each escalator will take approximately four to five months to replace and the PTA will stage the works to minimise disruption.

Construction impacts

To minimise disruption to passengers, the majority of work will take place at night and will be staged so that only one escalator is replaced at a time, keeping access via stairs, remaining escalators and/or lifts. Each escalator will take approximately four to five months to replace and the PTA will stage the works to minimise disruption.

Perth Underground Station

Work has started on the final stage of the Escalator Replacement Program.

In order to complete this work the two western escalators and the western stairs that run from the Murray Street entrance to the concourse will be taken offline to begin their replacement. A number of ticket and add value machines will also be out of use. Throughout the works the lift and InfoCentre will remain open.

The escalator that runs from pedestrian underground passage to Yagan Square will remain out of service for the life of the project.

The escalators and stairs are expected to reopen when the project is complete in mid-2019.

Contact

For passenger information please visit the Transperth website. Should you require special assistance at the station, please call our Customer Service team on 1800 800 022 an hour before you intend to travel.